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PUBLISHED BY STUDENTS OF MERCER ifolVERSITY AND BESSIE TIFT COLLEGE Vol. S MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON; GA., FRIDAY; JANUARY 19, 1923. [anniversary program MAKES BIG COLLEGE DAY JROWTH traced FROM PRIMITIVE PENFIELD ORIGIN Prom Throe Faculty Members, Staff Has Grown to 73 NEARLY 900 STUDENTS NOW fen separate Schools Combined in University of Today Mercer University celebrated the lineteenth anniversary of its begin- iny at old Penfleld. Just ninety years ago Mercer In- tute opened its doors to thirty-nine jdcntH and three faculty members, fhe faculty,, students and classrooms re housed in a building of logs—- he faculty and students Combining, as lecorded in the historic records of the livers'ity, "maupned ' labor with dudy.” Those ninety years have been placed e on the other with such a devo ut to the early ideals of the fgund- t that when today the celebration gins, the celebrants will honor the Founders with one long stream of re- rkable facts—-just a long period of ichievcment. Instead Of three faculty members, ire are now seventy-three and the le student body of thirty-nine fast proarhes MO. To meet the great of Christian education for the ith, ten separate schools and de- nrtmenta are separately, carried on rithin the university, in order to edu- s for the many professional inches. These schools have been to include Graduate. School, College of Arts end Science, School Law, School of Chistianity, School Journalism, School of Education, tool of Commerce, Pre-medical, Pre-engineering and Night School of lommerce. Early Scenes at I'enfleld. Situated as Mercer is today on a mpus of eighty-seven acres of city operty, facing beautiful Tattnall Iquare, forty-one buildings, included assets making it the next largest ipitalized corporation in Central leorgia, the historian realizes the chievcipent when reading thus from memoirs of'Ira D. McDaniel, the Irst assistant to Ellington Sanders, t president of Mercer Institution. “Memory brings up to my mental ision a picture of the site of Mercer istitute, as I saw it in December, B32. Beautiful for situation does appear, but almost in a primitive rest state, with the historical cabins course of construction. A group moisting of Jesse Mercer, B. M. n( l er *, James Armstrong, John iumpkin and Jonathan Davis, mem- of the executive committee, are session on the grounds, sitting on j?*> and the business under consid- n “ closing the contract with the nt teacher for the first year, •t done, B. M. Sanders,' secretary the board, makes the proper entry I the transaction upon the minutes, all depart for their homes, Uou lfh the surrounding forests. Memory also recalls vividly, a pie- of a cgtton field, in the Spring of Rost of the students are en- ^•d in chopping out cotton with the Those whW wield the hod d*x- *ly are ffF in advance; those Qmt impienMat awkwardly, stiSairi ro falling fur ttw-.hanj NatgUa Bffllngton M. Sanders, John L. VARIOUS EVENTS IN CELEBRATION ON ANNIVERSARY Mercer Faculty and Students Observe Ninetieth Birthday PROGRAM AT FORSYTH Dr. Weaver Relates Many Facts of Monroe County in Talk WJL H. FISH INSTALLED Basketball Game, Reception and Big Banquet . ' Mercer University, assisted' by the faculty and students of . Bessie Tift College, celebrated the nineieth an niversary of Mercer University in a series of events beginning with a program and barbecue at Forsyth and continuing for twelve hours into the night in a banquet at which nearly a thousand took part. It was Mercer’s gala day, featuring-every' historic event of the many years of the uni-; versity und filled' with as much prophesy of greatness for,the future as the historianscould locate from the past. One hundred students, entrained in the morning for the campus of Bessie Tift at Forsyth Greeted by the fac ulty and sudents of the sister institu tion in song and program,.Dr, Weaver of Mercer, in response to the address of welcome by Dr. Aquilla ChambleS, made, according to old Monroe coun ty residents, one of the most locally' historic addresses ever heard in old Monroe county. His address was full, of facts concerning the county and Forsyth which they declared was his tory altogether new to, the, sister coun-' ty -of Bibb, , The afternoon train of the ‘ Central, of Georgia Railway brought down to Macon about four hundred.' The aft ernoon program consisted of a recep tion in the eight fraternity halls of the university and. a basketball game which was won by the Cicerojlian Lit erary Society over the I’hi Deltas by a score of 20 to 12.. Lasts Until Midnight. Featuring the award of prizes for the 800-student campaign, the instal- atipn of Chief Justice William 'H. Fish as dean of the Mercer Law School, and the dedication of the Daniel Mar shall Hall, the program, lasted until about midnight. Di\ Rufus W. Weaver, president of the . university and under whose ad ministration the university has gruwn so much during the past four years, addressed the banqueters on the Faiunders. of Mercer and Judge Mal colm T), Jones, of the .Mercer Univer sity Law faculty, -on The Greater Mercer University Program. During the deication of the Daniel Marshall Hail, the Arst building of the 12,600,000 building program, William Howell, of Augusta,'a greatgrahd of Daniel Marshall, and a graduate of Richmond Military Academy, present ed Mercer with a. gavel made, from the wood of a tree under which Dan iel Marshall made his first Georgia speech. Daniel Marshall founded the first Baptist church in Georgia at old Kiskec near Augusta. , • When the'banqueters filed from the bgnquet hall they were astonished to see the Freshmen had built a big. bonfler on the campus to top off the big celebration program. Judge Fish Huf&gurated. MERCERTEAMW1NS ADDITIONAL GAME Cody’s Men Defeat Macon “Y” Third Game of Season. By Taylor Glenn . , He who laughs last generally laughs best. . So sayeth the adage. That statement' made hundreds, possibly thousands' of -years ago, by some logician or thinker either prom inent or unimportant, might well ap ply to the Mercer-basketball team, for- having bowed in' defeat before the Infantrymen from Camp Bending in'the two games prior to the one staged last week in the new City Au-. ditoriunv, the battling spirit of the Baptist brigade brought' about the biggest surprise in local,sporting an nals and. triumphed over the Soldiers by a 35-17 count. • ' Due primarily to the condition of little,George Harmon, and secondly to the team work of the entire five; the Mcrcerians got off, to an. early lead and when twenty minutes had elapsed Camp'Benning.was trailing a 32 to 6 score. ,. , • -.... George Harmon, acknowledged king of the basketball world, in so far as Southern circles are concerned, ac quitted himself in quite an admirable manner, his work in the first half be ing responsible for a total of eighteen of the .twenty p'oints,credited to his. team, sixteen of which were by the foul route and two by way of a pretty field goal; He secured a total of twenty-nine points. King Dunn and “Bubber” Pope were responsible for the other four points made by Mer cer during this period, each making a field goal: This morning at 10:30. o’clock, Mercer University will celebrate the anniversary of the birth of General Robert Edward Lee,, commander-in- chief of the Confederate army during the War Between the States, Dr. Ashby Jones, pastor of the Ponce de Leon Baptist Church of Atlanta' and one of the South's most finished ora tors, will deliver the anniversary ad dress. Mercer’s Gleg -Club and a double quartet from the Wesleyan Glee Club are on the program. Miss Aline Cor ey, business, manager and leader on Wesleyan’s' club, will give a reading appropriate to the occasion? Dr. Percy M. Flippin, dean of the Graduate School, is chairman of the program committee for the exercises of the day and was instrumental in securing Dr. Jones to'deliver the ad dress at Me ice r. I)r. Jones’ father lived at Lexington, Virginia, and was closely associated wjth General Lee iii. his last days. Dr. Jones has lived under this infiuencce. during his child hood. General Lee was given his doctor of law’s degree at Meleer University in. the early seventies. William H. Flak as dean of the Mer- cer . University Law School, Judge Fjah atotod that ha fjlt himself as gkoatly exalted*, not baiause he has hald the highest-judicial office In the C naon. State pf Georgia, bpt because he has (Continued «» gat* Six) Mercer 39—Macon “Y”' 22 Jn view of recent developments and the fine' exhibition the Macon “Y” made against Albany “Y” in the South Georgia'metropolis not so long ago' the above score does n.ot tell the' complete story of Mercer’s little.setto with Coach McArthur’s scrappy ath letes at the new City Auditorium Tuesday night. The game started Off with a prom ise of beipg about as hard fought as the.one between Mercer and Camp Benning last -week, but as time passed; as George Harmon das reach ing his old stride, the Baptists soon were limbered up and things were looking about as gloomy for the “Y” boys us though they were trailing 110-3 count. , •' , .' • With -the installation of Captain Rob Gamfile during the latter part of the first half, things .began to look gloomier than that.' Bob .was re sponsible for three field goals in five minutes of play, -and was credited with three, more .in the next half. George Harmon was again the out standing player on the Baptist quint, 'but he was run a'close, race for the honors by! Bob .Gamble and Manly McWilliams. Tho latter’s guarding ability seems to be improving with each tick of the. old Ingersoll. Mercer leaves early this morning for .Atlanta where they take on the fast A. A. G. five to-night and Tech Saturday night. These games are the first two on a trip through the East which will take the Baptists Into the camps' of some.of the strongest teams in that, section of the country. MERCER BOYS’ PROGRAM Mercer is always there “with the goods”- and certainly she - was . last Sunday night. -Four of the boys who have given their Uvea for service on the fpreign field came up to Forsyth and gave the following inspiring and .. instructive program: Talk on India, At toe Inauguration of Chief Justice 1 William Everett; The Inter-relation of Home and Foreign Fields, Guy Welch; The Qualifications. for the Foreign- Field* Newton; The Nature of the Missionary, Call, Durward The boys were highly commended and appreciated by the Forsyth peo ple and thnoffiaaai* Till girls. Lee Celebration At Chapel Today Dr. W. Ashby Jones Is Anniver sary Orator - No. 80-/4L — ' Atlanta-Mercer Boys Organize Big Club Seventeen Students Attend Or- . ganization Meeting A recent organization on the Cam illa is the Atlanta Club, composed of students from Atlanta who are at tending Mercer University.- „■ The Club is perhaps the largest of- its kind at Mercer, boasting of seven teen charter members. The purpose of the organization is to put Mercer' on the map in Atlanta and to put At lanta on the map at- Mercer. Plans are fast being perfected to-make this purpose- a reality,, and it is hoped that next year the number of Atlanta boys here shall be double, the number of this- year. The officers of the Club are: H. O. Hughes, president; C. M. Miere, vice- president and William E. Waterhouse, secretary. The Club members are; Marvin Pharr, 'R. E. Moncrief, J. H. Drewry, Jr., S. t|. Etheridge, E. V. Kimsey, W. C. Sikes, H. G. Starr, C. M. Miers, H. O. Hughes, W. E. Waterhouse, L. W. Willioms, J. W. Haley, Al. Jen nings, R, B. Eubanks, .F. M. Hulme, Swilling and Peck. Look out for this Club’s great • ex tension program!' Watch ■ Atlana show ’em up! : ' By W. E Waterhouse.. A FAMOUS EULOGY Of all the eulogies in literature, there are .n6ne more beautiful than the following upon Robert £. Lee. It fell from' the silver ■ tongue ’ of the eloquent Georgian; Senator Benjamin H. Hill, and is said to have been ex tempore: “When the future historian comes to survey the character of Lee, he will find.it rising like a huge mountain above the-undulating plain of Im munity, and he will have to lift his eyes high toward heaVen to catch its summit. He possesses every virtue of fhe other great commanders with out their vices. He was a foe with out hate, a friends without treachery, a soldier without cruelty and a victim without murmuring. He was a public off icer without vices, a private citizen without .a wrong, a neighbor without a reproach, a Christian without hy pocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar without his ambition, a Frederick without his tyranny, a Na poleon without his selfishness, and a Washington without his reward. He was as obedient to authority as true king. He was as gentle as woman in life, pure and modest as-a virgin in thought, watchful as a Ro man vestal, submissive ' to law Socrates, and grand, in battle' as Achilles.” Masonic Club Given Lookout Mt, Gavel Instrument Presented Organiza tion by Johnson and Lancaster An interesting meeting was held by the Mercer Masonic Club last Thurs day, Dr, P. S." Flippin, dean of the Graduate School, delivered the' ad dress, stressing the importance of the club. Such clubs tend to . dispel selfish ness,” said > Dr. FUppin. He also ad vised students not to. .neglect their class wprk for fraternal organizations After presenting the commendable characteristics of the Masonic Order, Dr. FUppin. presented to the president .of the club a gavel, made .from wood that came from the top of Lookout Mountain. The gavel *rps the gift of G. E. Lancaster and A. S, Johnson, two members of the club; who finished their courses last term and did not return to school this term. Both were former football captains. . GEN. R. E. LEE TO MERCER UNIVERSITY The following is a copy of a let ter written to Hon. Henry H. Tucker, president of' Mercer Uni versity, by General Robert E. Lee, upon his receipt .of a notice from Mercer that' the honorary, degree of Doctor of Laws had been con- •ferred upon him: Lexington, Va., 18 July, 1866. “Sir: • ' .. “I have-had.the honor to receive your letter of the lt)th instant, in forming me that the honorary de gree of Doctor of .Laws had been conferred on me by the Faculty and Board of Trustees of Mercer Uni versity of Georgia. . “I return my sincere thanks for this undeserved mark of the es T '■item "of the Faculty and Trustees, •of-Mercer University. - "1 am with great reppect, “Your obt-. servt.', R. E. Lee. “lion, Henry H. Tucker, . “President Mercer Universiy; Georgia."'- YEA—rSTRUPPER “.Professor Strupper si in the Bessie Tift math room waiting to help; all' the freshmen, who want to know more about logarithms.'’ This was the startling, announcement made in chap el- Monday morning at' eight o’clock. Doesn’t that show interest on the teacher's part to ride 28 miles to help delinquent freshmen, and especially on a holiday? llippity, hippity; hoop, Hippity, hoop, ' ; ' Here’s to our math ’ teacher, Here’*-to Strup; CICERONI ANS A meeting of the Clioniao Socle! was held in Upshaw parlors Satu day evening, January IS; Tha f« lowing program was given: Two Clionian songs, composed I Florine Johnson—Nadine Little. A play, “The Spirit of CUmiiac written by Edna Weat. This pli was representative of the Clionii spirit at Bessie Tift now and what is sure to ho top yean later. Tho taking part were: Eloise Hammac T^vane Abercrombie, Elisabeth Bro den, Edna Wait, pot Wanton, W lene Reynolds, Ellen Stakenmiller a Mary Lee Ayers.